I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, specializing in intersectional engagement with sound and culture in both the digital and physical sphere. With the support of the Fulbright Association and Te Tūapapa Mātauranga o Aotearoa me Amerika, I graduated with a PhD in Music from The University of Chicago in 2022 with a dissertation that analyzes the various and intertwined ways vulnerable communities encounter and interpret sonic events during periods of crisis and medicalization. As part of this work, I developed a model of traumatic listening: a way of approaching intersectional, embodied listening habits during a time of crisis.
Following graduation, I was appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Information Management at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. This work brings together my interest in relational bonds and situated knowledges to explore the ethics of culturally responsible and responsive Indigenous archiving.
My secondary areas of research interest include how time-consciousness is experienced through sound and within diverse bodies; how mediated voices are emblematic of complex relational desires and fears; how (mis)representations of Indigeneity on screen occur through sound; and how critical disability studies can meaningfully transform ethnographic praxes and inclusive pedagogy alike.
